Two Door Cinema Club: Beacon

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Those bewildered by Two Door’s singer (“Is it Ed Sheeran?”) at the Olympic
Opening Ceremony are unlikely to have their image of him sharpened by the
trio’s second album. The band is one of those acts who enjoy success despite
having nothing distinctive that belongs to them alone — they are wallpaper
indie. Each track is richly textured, hooking attention with a Johnny Marr
flicker at the start of The World is Watching or the Vampire Weekend
guitars of Spring. Yet over and over again they flatten these out
with grown-up, super-sized ambitions, the same Pavlovian pattern of
quiet-loud guitar melancholy.